gills
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Oil spills can cause immediate deaths of marine animals and other organisms, for example by physically trapping turtles, smothering the feathers of seabirds or damaging the gills of fish.
From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026
In the pens, robots scrape algae and mussels off the nets to ensure none of it gets trapped in the salmon’s gills.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
In its juvenile stage, popular thought would have anticipated it to show tadpole-like features like external gills, explained Jason Pardo, a research associate at Chicago's Field Museum and the study's co-lead author.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
Beneath the body were plate-like respiratory structures that resemble the book gills seen in modern horseshoe crabs.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 3, 2026
Kabuo watched for one long moment—an occasional fish flaring at the gills or jerking—then pulled the hatch cover over them and sprayed sea slime out the scupper holes.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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